Five One-Line Haiku


sky grows darker sunset or storm clouds?


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nephew’s 13th birthday whitecaps on the lake


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red rocks pink at sunrise I wake up to check my phone


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Memorial Day three unsharpened yellow pencils by the dumpster



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a crow calls before six you’re early this morning


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J. D. Nelson is the author of eleven print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including *purgatorio* (wlovolw, 2024). His first full-length collection is *in ghostly onehead* (Post-Asemic Press, 2022). Visit his website, MadVerse.com, for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.